From 24 September to 29 October, on the occasion of Bergamo Brescia Italian Capital of Culture 2023, Quadri come luoghi opens to the public, a special exhibition promoted by the association Pianura da Scoprire, curated by Davide Ferri, in collaboration with Barbara Meneghel and coordinated by Miral Rivalta.

The exhibition includes the work of about twenty artists and is structured in five spaces, different in history and characteristics and not usually used for art exhibitions, configuring an itinerary in some experiences of Italian painting. The project develops around the dialogue between the works and the specificity of the spaces in which they are exhibited and a series of suggestions underlying the idea of “painting as a place” or “painting as a place”. The idea of “painting as a place” refers to the capacity of the painting to expand its energetic space in order to reconfigure the place in which it is placed – thus there could be some installation works in the exhibition, where the paintings move away from the wall in order to establish a different relationship with the space; or, on the contrary, the idea of painting as a place refers to the capacity of the painting to place itself as a place in its own right, a space of representation that is organically autonomous; determined, as a separate entity, to resist the stresses of the place in which it is placed.

The exhibition takes place in five locations, mainly public and private historical residences and palaces and churches in as many towns in the provinces of Brescia and Bergamo.